How Your Gift Helps

Your gift helps provide Treatment, Training and Research in Autism, Cochlear Implant, Hearing, and Speech and Language. We are currently in a comprehensive campaign to Realize the Vision in all of these areas.

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in the U.S. affecting over 1 million children and costing the nation $126 billion per year

More children will be diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder this year than with AIDS, diabetes, and cancer combined

Your Gift Helps:

Children receive early and intensive ASD interventions that range from individual therapy to classroom-based preschool programs focused on preparing children for the transition to kindergarten

Youths participate in group programs that develop important social and communication skills necessary for employment success

All individuals with autism through the construction of the new Callier Autism Center which will expand access to treatment for children with autism, as well as provide more opportunities to educate students and further autism research

$50 purchases a backpack to store a laptop, Phonak toaster, and Hi-Pro Box to help hearing-impaired children in the schools

$75 purchases a Noise CD for testing children’s hearing in the schools

$100 covers a WIPI 2 picture book for use during functional hearing testing with children

$150 buys a sound-level meter for measuring ambient noise levels in the school setting

$150 buys an Educational Audiology Textbook for reference purposes and use in helping hearing-impaired children in the schools

$350 buys a Phonak toaster for programming receivers and transmitters for hearing –impaired children in the schools

$800 purchases a Laptop for programming equipment and monitoring issued equipment for hearing-impaired children in the schools

$950 buys a HI-Pro Box to program hearing aids for hearing-impaired children in the schools

$1,000 purchases two hearing aids and three years of follow-up services

Speech and Language

Did You Know?

7%– 10% of children are affected by a speech or language disorder

For 80% of children with speech deficits, the disorder is severe enough to require clinical treatment

Your Gift Helps:

Children receive individual and group therapy for articulation and motor speech disorders, delayed language, feeding disorders and stuttering

Adults receive individual and group therapy for cognitive-communication impairments and stuttering

Students receive the Robert D. Stillman, Ph.D. Award for Outstanding Students in the Master of Science in Communication Disorders Program

Researchers study speech of adults and children with a focus on the speech of brain-injured talkers with disorders known as aphasia and apraxia-of-speech in the Speech Production Laboratory in the Communication Technology Center